Crystal Amber (CRS) Competitors

AA (LON:AA) and Crystal Amber (LON:CRS) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and earnings.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of AA or CRS?

80.3% of Crystal Amber shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Crystal Amber shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is AA or CRS a better dividend stock?

AA pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Crystal Amber pays an annual dividend of GBX 50 per share and has a dividend yield of 42.3%. AA pays out 0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crystal Amber pays out 29,411.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the media refer more to AA or CRS?

In the previous week, AA had 7 more articles in the media than Crystal Amber. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for AA and 0 mentions for Crystal Amber. AA's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Crystal Amber's score of 0.00 indicating that AA is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
AA	Neutral
Crystal Amber	Neutral

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, AA or CRS?

Crystal Amber has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AA. AA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crystal Amber, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
AA	£982M	0.00	N/A	£11.70	N/A
Crystal Amber	£12.26M	8.03	£14M	£0.17	695.59

Is AA or CRS more profitable?

Crystal Amber has a net margin of 114.19% compared to AA's net margin of 0.00%. Crystal Amber's return on equity of 12.30% beat AA's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
AA	N/A	N/A	N/A
Crystal Amber	114.19%	12.30%	5.45%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer AA or CRS?

AA received 319 more outperform votes than Crystal Amber when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.85% of users gave AA an outperform vote while only 56.58% of users gave Crystal Amber an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
AA	Outperform Votes 362 77.85%	Underperform Votes 103 22.15%
Crystal Amber	Outperform Votes 43 56.58%	Underperform Votes 33 43.42%

Summary

AA and Crystal Amber tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.